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Chicago examiner dpirt one cv nt Â«" Chicago u<t elsewhems rkill ul ueiin 1 buburls two cents vol xiii no 141 a m friday Chicago june 4 1915 friday resristered d s patent offlc suit to dissolve steel go lost in u.s court injunction plea refused directors exonerated judges are unanimous on degree agree on ruling though not in complete accord in every step in the reasoning unlawful price-fixing agree ments stopped trade commis sion control is recommended by international news serrtee trenton n j june 3 the united states district court for new jersey in session here to-day decid ed the government's suit to dissolve the united states steel corporation against the government and in favor pthe corporation the court was composed of judges buffington hunt woolley and mc pherson judge buffington wrote the prin cipal opinion and judge woolley wrote a concurring opinion in which judge hunt concurred the court stated that all the members of the court are in agreement as to the de cree that will be entered although they are not in complete accord con cerning every step by which that result is reached these decisive points are outlined in the decision refusal to issue an injunction holding that certain price-fixing agreements which followed the gary dinners but which stopped be fore the bill was filed have been unlawful allowing the government to move to retain jurisdiction of the bill if such price-fixing practices are renewed but suggesting that matters now . may be . controlled by the new trade commission largely business facts judge buffington's opinion declares that this case a proceeding under the sherman anti-trust law is one largely of business facts and continues by saying that all of the trust cases thus far determined only such combinations are within the sherman act as by reason of the in tent of those forming them or the in herent nature of the contemplated structing aun naun unaun nuaunaan act wrong the public by unduly re stricting competition or unduly ob btructing the course of trade the suit was started by the gov ernment against the steel corporation in october 1911 two years were oc cupied in taking the testimony which covered 12,000 printed pages and also 4,000 pages of exhibits the case was argued in philadelphia in october last the argument covering two weeks llt was heard by the three circuit dges of the third circuit â€” bufflng n mcpherson and wooley â€” and with em was associated circuit judge unt who after the abolition of the jurt of commerce was assigned by lief justice white to service in the ird circuit 10 pages in opinion the opinion of the court which rvers the case generally as filed by idge buffington embraces about 150 iges its opening is that we may say in advance that all le members of the court are in agreement as to the decree that will be entered although they are not in complete accord concerning every step by which that result is reached judge buffington says in his opin ion that the construction of the sher man anti-trust law has been settled by the supreme court in the stand ard oil and the tobacco cases and ap plied in the third circuit in the pow iir trust and keystone watch cases it then analyzes the sherman act and shows that its object is as its title kays act to protect trade and corn high financial circles rejoice at decision in high financial circles last night it was accepted as almost certain that the present administration in washing ton which did not institute the prosecution would willingly accept the sweeping verdict rendered unanimously by the four new jersey judges in the steel corporation case es pecially as the federal trade commission just organized will hereafter be able to supervise all acts of the corporation elbert h gary said last evening in new york that the tension and pressure upon him were at times so great that only the consciousness that the corporation had done abso lutely no willful wrongful act enabled him to bear the burden and the strain since the Taft administration began the prosecution judge gary has aged in appearance very much but he was a happy man last evening from all quarters telegrams and other messages of congratulation poured in upon him the general comment was that it was a personal victory for judge gary wall street had rumors that the decision would be ren dered after the stock market closed and 19,000,000 par value of the common shares changed hands at an advance of nearly 5 per share when the actual news came after 3 o'clock there were bids for the stock at much higher prices â€¢ â€¢ â™¦ judge gary issued a brief statement which follows : i am very much gratified by information from philadelphia that the circuit court of appeals composed of judges buffing ton mcpherson woolley and hunt have unanimously decided the government case against the united states steel corporation in favor of the defendant i feel this decision approves the general policy of the steel corporation it should have a great and good effect upon busi ness conditions throughout this country w t all street is now hopeful that other government suits such as those against the american can company and the corn products refining company also will be decided in favor of business and that no more prosecutions will be instituted at least for the present in influential circles it is understood president wilson is convinced that business is now being conducted with hon est intent and that he will do nothing to retard the return of prosperity since the 1916 election may be governed very largely by the condition of the country then depression usually means the overthrow of the party in power : prosperity its retention * * â€¢ according to the unanimous opinion these conclusions were reached : in 1901 wkea the corporation was formed its competitors were doing 60 per cent of the country's steel and iron business the test of monopoly is not the size of that which is ac quired but the trade power of that which is not acquired the corporation's competitors have grown faster than it has grown the case is largely one of business facts there was nothing wrong in acquiring the t c & i com pany during the financial panic of 1907 president roosevelt's action is thus inferentially approved the purchase of the t c & i and other concerns earlier in the life of the corporation were the honest exertion of one's right to contract for one's benefit unaccompanied by a wrong ful motive to injure others andrew carnegie a party to the alleged violation of the law merely sold his stocks and bonds in order to retire from business rules that in healthy normal virile competition in in dividual is in no peril from monopoly or trade restraint shows few people outside the iron and steel field who the corporation's competitors are or the amount of thi competi tors resources declares size of business is not the question but how it is carried on holds steel and iron trade is not being monopolized and can not be shows aid given other manufacturers by corporation's ships which offered accommodations for trade not otherwise possible holds that there is no need to return to the old competitive trade methods prince william back at german front by international news service berlin june 3 â€” prince august william fourth son of the kaiser who was injured in an automobile ac cident during the winter has re turned to the western front pope prepares note to killers of europe by international news service rome june 3 â€” the pope has pre pared an important document ad dressed to the heads of the european states which will shortly be commit ted to their hands through diplomatic channels guards follow miss barker to foil kidnapers omaha friends fear publicity over her visit may cause plot for ransom i international v sen ice omaha june 3 â€” to prevent a possible kidnaping for ransom miss katherine barker of Chicago was guarded by detectives here last night when she attended a party at a country club miss barker is in omaha to act as bridesmaid at a friend's wedding when she ar rived yesterday the newspapers fea tured her as the richest girl in her own right in the united states and printed her picture on the front pages later her friends became alarmed and without her knowledge had private detectives follow her during the evening german gas death awful says bacon by international news service new york june 3 â€” bayonet wounds and shrapnel are merciful compared to the effects of the poi sonous gas the germans are now us ing according to robert bacon former united states ambassador to france bacon returned to-day from paris and london and the western theater of war in the interests of the red cross and american ambulance corps death from gas is slow strangulation he said it liquefies the lungs by destroying the tissues dewitt clinton blair banker dies at 81 by international news service new york june 3 â€” dewitt clin ton blair eighty-one years old sen ior member of the banking firm of blair & co died in his home here to day of pneumonia his father was the late john i blair of blairstown n j greatest american railroad builder the elder blair built the lackawanna the Chicago & north western and many other railroads dewitt c blair's fortune is estimated conservatively at 20,000,000 votes for all in 1916 is prediction that national suffrage will be a reality in 1916 is the belief of miss doris stevens national secretary of the congressional union for woman suffrage miss stevens stopped in Chicago yesterday en route to san francisco where she will take charge of the organization of the first na tional convention of women voters we expect to have delegates from every state in the union said miss stevens mothers pensions ordered by villa mrs henry neil 318 forest ave nue oak park received the follow ing telegram yesterday from her hus band who is in texas advocating a mothers pension law after con ference with villa at the army head quarters at juarez to-day a proclam ation was issued signed by pancho villa putting all women and chil dren in mexico under mothers pen bion system villa's commissary will be extended to provide for all jane addams meets swiss president by international news service geneva switzerland june 3 â€” p a stone american minister at berne switzerland has presented miss jane addams of Chicago and her party in cluding american women delegates to the recent conference at the hague to president motts he said he did not believe the time opportune for a movement for lasting peace all of london at zeppelins mercy by international news service berlin june 3 â€” the official wolff agency says that during the zeppelin raid on london one airship reached finchley on the north side and must therefore have flown over the greater part of the city from the same source it is learned that the damage caused was much greater than announced the weather Chicago asd vicinity partly cloudy to-day and to-mor row little change in tempera ture temperatures yesterday highest 62 lowest 52 average 57 rule or ruin of nation in labor hands lloyd george says everything depends on unfailing supplies of ammunition to bring victory ministers urge that men em ployed in state services be put under gontrcl of government by international vrs service london june 3 â€” the astonishing speech of lloyd-george at manches ter in which he stated that the very existence of the british nation de pended upon unfailing and literally overwhelming supplies of ammuni tion is only part of a desperate prop aganda on the part of the new cab inet ministers are urging that all work men engaged in the manufacture of supplies and monitions or employed in vital state services such as mines and railways should be put under di rect government control and be in effect under martial law they consider methods of compul sion in state work necessary but to get the output required but to abro gate trade union relations during the war and to transfer and distribute labor as and when required martial l,aw urged state register of men engaged in such manufacture or available for enlistment which possibly will be made and which taken by itself might afford useful information is desired by these ministers only as the first step to the introduction of martial law in workshops llyod-george's remarks were re ceived with wild enthusiasm espe cially when he declared that if the allies in the west had been as well equipped with ammunition as the germans the latter would now be out of france and flanders and fighting to protect their own borders he introduced his speech by saying that he was the state's emissary on the most urgent errand ever declared to any audience the speaker cited the tremendous assistance the private firms of france have been to the state as showing what is possible the late victories of the french armies in piercing the german lines were largely attributed to the private workshop of france he declared the minister appealed to the work ers of lancashire to help equip the british armies with the means of breaking the lines of the enemy's frpnt very emphatically he an nounced that he would not appeal vainly he said he possessed very great compulsory powers under the defense of the realm act and if the necessity should arise he will use them appeals to patriotism he softened this threat however when he continued by saying that he was convinced that he could get more by an appeal to their patriotism at the same time the compulsory powers would be a great help in enabling them to organize quickly and to get rid of difficulties without delay they could not wait to argue with unrea sonable persons and one unreason able person might clog the whole ma chine compulsion he said will be very useful in pushing such persons along it is not aimed at the majority it is not needed by the majority a great discussion is going on re ' gardlng the question of conscription j we are discussing it as if we were discussing land reform or national insurance in the full leisure of peace you cannot argue under shell fire you can only decide to introduce compulsion as an im portant element in organizing the nation's resources of skilled industry and trade does not necessarily mean conscription independence of britain depends on workmen of nation â€” lloyd-george by international news service manchester eng june 3 david lloyd-george minister of munitions the newly-created office in the coalition cabinet in a speech here to-night brought the most urgent message ever told a british audience he declared that it depended more upon the masters and men of the workshops of britain than almost upon any other section of the community whether britain emerged front the colossal struggle beaten humiliated and stripped of her power honor and influence and the mere bondslave of a cruel military tyranny or whether she should come out triumphant free and more powerful than ever for good in the affairs of men referring to the fall of peremysl he said the germans achieved a success â€” a great success â€” not be cause of the superior valor of their soldiers but because of a shower of shot they poured upon the russians two hundred thousand shells were concentrated in the course of a single hour upon the russians had we been in a position to apply the same pro cess to the germans on our front they would have been turned out of france and we should actually have pene trated into germany and have seen before us the end of the war 29 airmen in raid on prince french aeroplanes drop 178 bombs and thousands of ar rows on german base by international news service london june 3 â€” swooping from on high in the gray light of early dawn a french air flotilla of twenty nine aeroplanes this morning dropped 178 bombs on the field headquarters of the german crown prince the air squadron left its base be hind the french lines while it was still dark and between 4 and 5 o"clock appeared above the german head quarters amid a hail of shell and shrapnel the aviators took turns dropping their supplies of high ex plosives and their work ended flew away unharmed the french midnight communique received here from paris fails to state the location ot the crown prince's headquarters but it is be lieved his army is now on the east ern portion of the western front be sides bombs the airmen loosed a hail of steel arrows several thousand be ing thrown a number of the bombs it is stated reached their mark but no estimate of the damage done is possible sir edgar speyer self-exiled in n y by international news service new york june 3 sir edgar speyer driven from london by at tacks upon his loyalty arrived here to-day on the american liner phila delphia accompanied by his wife and their three children sir edgar a member of the speyer banking firm until the war was one of the most popular men in england then be cause of his german birth he became the target for violent verbal attacks the anxieties of life in london have worn me out and i need a long rest he said to-day berlin hotels try to oust americans chiasso june 3 â€” several ameri can families crossed the frontier to day en route for genoa and the united states their departure from germany was occasioned by a social boycott life has become intolerable for americans in berlin and an at tempt by hotel proprietors to expel american guests was only prevented by the police after representations had been made by the american em bassy germans drive upon lemberg garrison and supporting lines routed warsaw again the objective petrograd june 3 via london june 4 3:25 a m â€” the loss of the russians of pere mysl is admitted in an official communication issued to-night by international Â»Â«Â« service london june 3 â€” an athens dispatch states that bulgaria is concentrating an army on the turkish frontier this has occa sioned great alarm in constanti nople with the result that troops are being recalled from the gal lipoli peninsula and rushed to adrianople and kirk-kilisseh to meet eventualities by international news service london june 3 â€” peremysl has been retaken by the austro-gerraan armies ten weeks after its capture by the russians great numbers of men and an enormous quantity of military supplies has fallen into the hands of the victors converging teutonic armies are advancing on lemberg the routed russians in full retreat before them sweeping from the south the legions of linsingen the teuton commander are gaining fresh suc cesses on the sector north of stryj and are smasi ng forward to add their numbers to the work of clear ing galicia of the russians move toward warsaw hoping to catch the russians off their balance and pierce the lines be lieved to have been weakened for the defense of peremysl and lemberg the germans are hurling thousands at the bzura-rawka front in an ef fort to hew through to warsaw massive guns against which the russians with their weak artillery were unable to combat explain the recapture of the great fortress off peremysl after a siege of twenty days when in march the stronghold capitulated to an army of 120,000 russians it was after a siege of six months and only when the garrison were eating their boot straps the iron ring of russians having cut off all supplies of food starvation won for the russians in six months krupp guns for the germans in twen ty days stormed by night the last defense of peremysl were stormed by the austrians and ger mans in the darkness of early morn bernstdrff sends special envoy to kaiser britain threatens control of labor russ officially adit peremysl's fall president drafts note to germany wilson makes firm demand on whether humane principles will guide sea war in future envoy's messenger will explain attitude of u s to emperor move may delay berlin reply washington june 3 to-day 1 was big with developments of a nature not paralleled since the day3 preceding the spanish-american war events of great portent upon which may hinge the amicable relations between the imperial german gov ernment and the government of the united states followed in quick suc cession they may be stated as fol lows count von bernstorff the ger man ambassador has selected * personal ambassador to proceed at once to the great headquar ters of the german army and lay personally before the kaiser a thorough and explicit statement of the attitude of this govern ment and the feeling of its peo ple with regard to the conduct of the german submarine cam paign this personal envoy meyÂ«r gerhard sailed for denmark to day on his way to berlin i the state department by â– hasty arrangement with the al lied nations arrayed against the german government has guaranteed safe conduct for him most important of all presi dent wilson has drafted the form of a note to be sent to th imperial german government which is not an answer to th german reply to the american note on the sinking of the lusl tania but a reiteration in clearer and more pointed language of the first note which asked about the continuance of the german submarine campaign it is in effect a question which may be put as follows does the imperial german government intend to be guided in the future by the human principles prescribed by intern tional law for the conduct of warfare upon the seas this note is to be sent without reference to the action of count von bernstorfl in his attempt to place personally before the kaiser the true state of feeling of the american peo ple and will doubtless reach berlin in advance of count von eernstorff's envoy but the reply to the grave question of the president doubtless will await with the consent of this government the arrival and comple tion of the mission of such special envoy j cabinet gets draft to-day the cabinet meets to-morrow and j president wilson's draft of his com j munication will be placed before its i members with their approval it will be dispatched by saturday or early in the following week both the president's note and th selection of the envoy are develop ments of count von bernstorff's per sonal interview with the president at that time the german ambas dor told the president that he de sired to start on his way within a day or two a man with trustworthy qualifications who could personally discuss with the kaiser the situation in the united states this d tep was prompted the am bassador told the president by the on 4th page ist column > continued on 2d page sth column i extra lum